The Lenhart Family

Monday, June 2, 2008

When I am overwhelmed...

I am a person who gets overwhelmed easily. If I am trying to juggle too many things or have a big "things to do list", I am the first person to throw in the towel and quit. Flying home on Monday, looking outside the airplane window made me realize how small I am and how small the little world I live in is in comparison to how big God is. The everyday stress I deal with is nothing in comparison to what others are dealing with or have dealt with. And NOTHING compared to what God can do if I just let Him deal with whatever I am facing that particular stressful day. I have nothing in my life, no need that will require more strength or more power than God exerted when He raised Christ from the grave.

Ephesians 1: 18-20 says, "I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms.

I love this new song by Sara Groves called "When the Saints" because it reminds me of biblical examples and even examples of modern generations of people who were faithful and pressed on. It reminds me not to give up when small little things seem like great big impossible things……

When The Saints - Sara GrovesLord I have a heavy burden of all I've seen and knowIt's more than I can handleBut your word is burning like a fire shut up in my bones and I can't let it goAnd when I'm weary and overwrought with so many battles left unfoughtI think of Paul and Silas in the prison yardI hear their song of freedom rising to the starsAnd when the Saints go marching in I want to be one of them

Lord it's all that I can't carry and cannot leave behindit all can overwhelm me but when I think of all who've gone before me and lived the faithful life, their courage compels meAnd when I'm weary and overwrought with so many battles left unfoughtI think of Paul and Silas in the prison yardI hear their song of freedom rising to the starsI see the shepherd Moses in the Pharaohs courtI hear his call for freedom for the people of the LordAnd when the Saints go marching in I want to be one of themAnd when the Saints go marching in I want to be one of them

I see the long quiet walk along the Underground RailroadI see the slave awakening to the value of her soulI see the young missionary and the angry spearI see his family returning with no trace of fearI see the long hard shadows of Calcutta nightsI see the sisters standing by the dying mans sideI see the young girl huddled on the brothel floorI see the man with a passion come and kicking down that doorI see the man of sorrow and his long troubled roadI see the world on his shoulders and my easy loadAnd when the Saints go marching in I want to be one of themAnd when the Saints go marching in I want to be one of them I want to be one of them I want to be one of them I want to be one of them

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." ~ Hebrews

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I am a nurse and most importantly mom of 6 precious children( 2 are homegrown, 1 on loan,& 3 are hand picked). Drew (age 18) Ashlyn (age 16) We have adopted 3 Haitian miracles Jimso (age12), Jackson (age 15) a&Jedone (age 17) We also have a foster daughter who is a constant source of joy!We are passionate about orphan/ foster care.